From Tommy & the High Pilots, sweeping little power-pop suites with multiple parts that hold together and never lose their grip.
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Theater Review (NYC): OPA! The Musical
This story of life and love on a fictional Greek island is simple and old-fashioned and gets pretty silly, but that's all part of its lighthearted spirit.
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The latest edition of Clay McLeod Chapman's pugilistic monologue series may be the best one yet.
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Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walk out on hate.
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Cymbeline is one of those seldom-produced Shakespeare plays we English majors read in college but rarely get the opportunity to see.
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The Spanish composer Federico Mompou, who died in 1987, is beginning to get his due in the zeitgeist.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Ritter, Dene, Voss by Thomas Bernhard
A brilliant, sick brother, two hung-up sisters, and enough linguistic flair and dramatic panache for two or three plays
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A few days in the life of Lizzie Borden, 12 years later.
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Do a controversial artist's activities at her rural studio go beyond the merely disgusting to include something more sinister?
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John Lee Hooker Jr. blasts out high-powered, recession-era blues.
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